knocking shop
"knocking-shop" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“knocking shop” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A brothel.
Corpus desk
Index EN-knocking-shop · knocking shop · English
knocking shop · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "K" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | knocking shop |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “knocking shop” in English
Rare enough to double-check
knocking shop is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A brothel.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for knocking shop in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is knocking shop, spelled K-N-O-C-K-I-N-G- -S-H-O-P.
Definition
- 1A brothel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how knocking shop appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[A]lways reminds me of one of the costlier knocking-shops, you know—'Maison Japonaise' …
Bloody nonsense, "All come together"... Sounds like the motto of a knocking shop in Marrakesh.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.